Revealed: What Paul Wight Did During His OVW Return

For the first time since 2006, Paul Wight stepped inside an Ohio Valley Wrestling ring on Thursday, October 19 as the former Big Show made his return to OVW inside the Davis Arena in Louisville, Kentucky.

Wight's return had been announced ahead of time and the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion appeared in a promo segment on OVW Live alongside Al Snow. After putting over the promotion and reminiscing about how he "paid his dues the reverse way", Wight reminded fans that All Elite Wrestling were running the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville on Wednesday, November 1 for a taping of AEW Dynamite and Rampage. Wight then revealed that fans in attendance and watching at home will have access to a special QR code for two-for-one tickets to the AEW taping. 

Wight then remained in the ring as Al Snow announced the OVW Kentucky Championship had been vacated due to Crixus suffering an injury. This led to "Superior" Tony Evans and Star Rider vying for the title before Paul Wight announced they will face off for the vacant belt at OVW No Rest For The Wicked. 

This is where the gaffes began, though, as Wight got the date of the event wrong, announcing it for October 28 instead of October 21 as Al Snow mouthed "21". Wight then called Star Rider 'Masked Rider' by mistake. 

To end his involvement on OVW TV, Wight stuck around to commentate on the Rush Division Match between TW3 and Kal Herro.

Wight was infamously shipped off to OVW in 2000 in order to lose weight and correct perceived attitude issues. OVW was a WWE developmental territory at the time and by this point Wight was already a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion and WWE Champion.

The KFC Yum! Center has a capacity of 22,000. Only 2,237 tickets have been distributed for the Dynamite and Rampage taping, according to WrestleTix.